About us
Who we are
Union Vision Mission (聯合異象宣教) is a Christian mission that unites local churches to take part in world mission. Since 2009 it has carried out cross-cultural mission across East Africa.
Our mission
To unite local churches, receive the vision for mission, and take part in world mission.
Mission strategy
How we do mission
Joint mission
Mission across nations, denominations, churches and organizations, uniting churches in the United States, China, Korea, Africa and Southeast Asia.
Concentrated mission
Focusing missionaries and mission funds on one field for a set period, so that the mission bears more fruit.
Church planting
At the heart of the mission: establishing indigenous churches in the mission field, so that all peoples turn to God.
Discipleship
Raising young university students as disciples, to become the spiritual leaders who will carry God's work in the future.
Joint mission
Many churches, one mission
Centered on Uganda, UVM carries out cross-cultural mission in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo and other East African countries, and sends Chinese and Korean missionaries to Laos in Southeast Asia.
UVM is a registered nonprofit in Uganda, Korea and the United States, and works in joint mission with churches in East Africa, Korean churches, Chinese churches and Chinese American churches in the US.
Our history
From 2009 to today
- 2009
Cross-cultural mission begins, centered on Uganda in East Africa.
- 2018
Recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity in the United States.
- 2025
By June, more than 2,200 churches and 72 Christian schools built across East Africa, and about 10,000 pastors in Bible training.
Expanding
Expanding in the United States
Union Vision Mission is a registered 501(c)(3) public charity based in Monterey Park, California, led from Los Angeles by its President, Winston Ko, and its Director for the USA, Joshua Xuan.
In the US, UVM works in joint mission with Chinese American churches, organizes short-term mission teams every June and July, and sends long-term missionaries together with each member’s own church. A church in the United States gave to build UVM’s 605th church.
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.